Most research on the determinants of Presence focuses on aspects within the technology. Research on user characteristics and how they affect Presence is rather scarce. This paper presents the results from a stepwise multiple regression analysis in which the experienced Presence in video games is predicted by a set of user characteristics, among which three psychological constructs: the perceive...

This paper argues that psychologists are only beginning to understand how global environmental issues may be related to the ways people create a ‘fit’ between themselves and their environment in order to survive. The notion of a person-environment fit is an analogue at the personal level of the concept of sustainable development at the level of society. Using knowledge from a wide range of beha...

The degree of digitalization in organizations has increased remarkably. This trend will continue if the so called natural laws of information technology are veracious. At the same time the format of communicated information has shifted from traditional face-to-face and analogue communication to digital communication forms, such as digital documents. Because information is increasingly available...

A remarkably intriguing aspect in S. Y. Agnon's art of composition is that in a considerable number of his works, the reader is confronted by a strikingly confusing organization. As the story's plot seems to reach its climax and move toward its denouement, and all the conflicts of the fictional world face resolution, an unexpected, intrusive plot development is presented, which disrupts the nat...

The order in which user stories are implemented can have a significant influence on the overall development cost. The total cost of developing a system is non commutative because of dependencies between user stories. This paper presents a systematic and lightweight method to identify dependencies between user stories, aiding in the reduction of their impact on the overall project cost. Initial ...

contemporary poets have allocated a great share in quranic intertextuality to themselves. one of these poets is the palestinian one called fadavi toqan who has used the quranic concepts and vocabulary in order to express social and political problems as well as his own pains and suffers. in the present article the poet has studied all three kinds of pun by bringing examples.

In this paper, necessary and sufficient conditions are stated for the Craig-Sakamoto equation det(I − sA − tB) = det(I − sA)det(I − tB) to hold for all scalars s, t ∈ C. Moreover, spectral properties for matrices A and B that satisfy this equation are investigated.

The concept of development as freedom can be seen as an expansion process of real freedoms people enjoy, associated with their freedom of choices in social, political and economical spheres. Certain international agencies propose that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) allow this development to be reached more efficiently and quickly. While there are success stories galore, there is...

When was the last time you read a newspaper and was bombarded with articles you would rather not see? Current news media shows massive number of news every day. But from tragedies to happy stories, people might want to choose to read only those articles that fit their current mood. The purpose of this project is to present the Magnet News, a Web tool in which users can choose if they want to se...